1️⃣ year on……(*wow that’s flown by 🤯) When I joined Schroders Solutions I wrote a piece with Thomas Williams about long-dated real yields 📈 being ⬆️1%. (They’re still there!) We’ve got the ✍️back out and we’ve written about recent innovations in the LDI market (this follows trades we did in Feb and an FT article last month - see comments section for link). In this article we talk through Credit Collateralised Gilt Repo and Corpoate bond repo and discuss how these tools are helpful for managing LDI portfolios. (There’s also a handy explainer in the appendix on how traditional gilt repo transactions work - I hope people find this useful). *ok, it’s technically 11 months but LinkedIn is rounding up to a year….
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Nick Lewis, CFA
6mo
Thanks for sharing Owen Davies FIA. One thing I’d add (and would appreciate your view on) is that CCGRs will increase borrowing costs (usually by a handful of basis points) even when you have plenty of gilts to post as collateral. So are only likely to be appropriate for schemes that are/need to run tight on liquidity requirements and have big credit books (likely CDI approach near the limit of the appropriate required return to do this). For these schemes the additional spread from holding more credit offsets the increased repo costs. But even these schemes need to be aware they can post credit but have to settle in cash at the roll date… so not a free lunch. For schemes in a relatively strong liquidity position, I see credit repo as a much more useful tool to have available. Higher funding costs still, but only when you need it to bridge liquidity gaps in an extreme scenario.
Robert Pace
6mo
I've set a reminder to like this post when you hit 12 months 😄
Arif Saad CFA
6mo
A good read Owen Davies FIA. The corporate gilt repo is an interesting one. With the turn away from dirty CSAs post financial crisis, how does this differ, and how CCGR ensure we dont bring back unintended risks?
LDI Solutions Manager
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